![]() ![]() The economics don’t add up, and have nothing to do with patient care. As ZDoggMD points out in his video, the current EHR is a “glorified billing platform with some patient stuff tacked on.” Hospitals spend hundreds of millions of dollars to install the EHR, and then tell us that the EHR will help them bill and collect money at a superior rate.Florence Nightingale would have had a stroke. In an operating room, the circulating nurse’s job is analogous to that of a court reporter/stenographer. Nurses consistently have their backs to patients as they type, type, type data into computer terminals.With an EHR it takes at least 5 clicks to chart “atropine 0.4 mg.” In the past with a paper record you would merely write “0.4” on the atropine line.If you work at different hospitals with different EHRs, you have to be trained and retrained in multiple EHR platforms.Different EHRs at different hospitals are unable to communicate with each other.I agree with him that the current cumbersome EHRs come between doctors and patients during hospital care. Links exist to multiple equally funny satiric videos. Damania attended UC Berkeley in the early 1990s, followed by medical school at UCSF and residency at the Stanford University School of Medicine.Ĭheck out his website at. ![]() Zubin Damania, CEO and Founder of Las Vegas-based Turntable Health. ![]() ZDoggMD is a former Stanford physician known for his music videos, parodies, and comedy sketches regarding contemporary medical issues and work in the medical field. ZDoggMD trashes EHR in his powerful and humorous You Tube video An EHR State of Mind, in which he raps about Electronic Health Records to the tune of Jay Z’s and Alicia Key’s hit single An Empire State of Mind. Particularly in acute care, the computer keyboard and screen have no place between an anesthesiologist and his patient, an emergency room physician and his patient, an ICU doctor and his patient, or an ICU nurse and her patient. In a past column I identified the EHR as the most overrated advance affecting anesthesia practice in the past 25 years. I’m not a fan of the current state of Electronic Health Records (EHR), also known as Electronic Medical Records (EMR). HOUSE OF THE DRAGON BLOODY CESAREAN SECTION: A DOCTOR’S PERSPECTIVE.THE RISK OF ANESTHESIA PATIENT TRANSPORT. ![]()
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